I’ve been playing a bit of Terraria on Android; extremely addictive and good fun. I was using the cloud-save functionality that backs up your game saves to Google Drive, and thought I’d be able to use this to sync between devices – I had to send my Galaxy Note 4 back for repair, so reverted to my old (smashed!) HTC One X; fired up Terraria only to find no cloud saves were found.. here’s how to get them back!

I’ve just posted a simple PHP class to github (free under MIT license) that will let you fetch the latest Twitter and Facebook posts. All you need is a developer key for both, then to include the PHP file and you’re set!

Press the select button (middle) to enter “sampling” mode – tap the pebble to set your tempo. Then press select again to get it to pulse at the tempo you’ve set. You can also increase/decrease the tempo with the up/down buttons.

In case you didn’t know, Total War: Rome II is out now on Steam! It’s the latest game we’ve been working on (at Creative Assembly in the UK). This is a quick guide on getting Rome II running under Steam on Linux, using PlayOnLinux (a wine wrapper). Note: this won’t be using the native Linux version of Steam, this is specifically about running Rome II under Steam, running in a Wine environment.

I use Evernote for storing basically everything. Reference, notes, bookmarks (with notes about the bookmark), a journal (although this is a recent addition… we’ll see how long it lasts!) and some parts of my GTD workflow. It’s a fantastic tool with clients for Windows, Linux (Everpad, NixNote), Android, Mac, iPhone and of course, the web (where I use it most).

Anyway, every now and again, I get a bit frustrated by the editor Evernote uses on their web interface – some little quirk of layout will start misbehaving (usually with nested lists) in the body of my notes. The editor they use is a customized version of TinyMCE, but there’s no button to switch to HTML view (as there normally is in TinyMCE) which I’d normally do to fix these things. However! (and finally to the point of this article) you can inject events into a running instance of TinyMCE so that’s what this bookmarklet does – it sends the mceCodeEditor to the main Evernote editor (which happens to be the second instance of TinyMCE on the page) to let you edit the HTML source directly.

Let’s say you have a webapp that needs a popup window to hold something (a media player for example) and you want just one for the lifetime of your app. You want to be able to communicate with it (i.e. run javascript functions in it). How?! Read below!